Llyn Ogwen

I broke every day into two.

There was the start of the day to the main checkpoint, so on day one, that's the start to Ogwen.

And then there was the main checkpoint to the finish.

That's it.

I used to work in a little coffee hut on the right here.

It was my job to fire the flare gun to call mountain rescue if there was an accident." On these drives, we pass Llyn Ogwen, the ribbon lake at the mouth of the valley in which Tal y Braich sits, and remark how cold it looks.

We talk about how hard it must have been for Taid to work in the harsh mountain weather.

Mum finds new details about her childhood, and I try to commit them to memory.